Also, Dell buying someone doesn’t mean that the product stops being made. Dell bought Alienware and still makes devices for that market segment under the Alienware brand.
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brenticus@lemmy.world 6 months agoFramework is a private company so they need to agree to be bought. I don’t know enough about the leadership to be able to say the likelihood of accepting an offer, but it’s not just a thing that automatically happens because Dell has a lot of money.
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Money talks.
When the owners of a private company are offered millions more than they’ll likely make over the nest ten years, the odds of selling are very high.
Look at all the software devs that gets bought.
hswolf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s also few but existing examples of people that resist the selling urge, like the VLC dev
woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The story is literally about a funding round for Framework. Those investors don’t just give away the money. They buy a stake in the company.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yes, the exception. That simply supports my argument.
And we’re talking about stuff we see. Again, I bet you’d never heard of FolderShare or UbiBoot before I mentioned them here, and those are just 2 tools of many that I’ve lost to acquisitions over the years.
How many other tools/products have companies quietly acquired and killed that we don’t know about?
Ross_audio@lemmy.world 6 months ago
VLC
Exceptions are possible. Money isn’t everything for everyone.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Exceptions are possible.
And being exceptions proves the norm.
I’ve seriously lost countless tools because MS acquired them and shut them down. Thousands of dollars gone.
I’m not holding my breath.